Jason Grumet, founder and president of BPC, is respected on both sides of the aisle for his innovative approach to improving government effectiveness. Grumet’s first book, City of Rivals: Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy, was released in September 2014.

Olympia Snowe is a BPC senior fellow and co-chairs its Commission on Political Reform. With her election to the U.S. Senate in 1994, Snowe began an 18-year career in the Senate. She was the first woman in U.S. history to serve in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of Congress.

Henry Cisneros co-chairs BPC’s Housing Commission and BPC’s Immigration Task Force. In 1981, Cisneros became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city, San Antonio, Texas. In 1992, President Clinton appointed Cisneros to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

G. William Hoagland is a senior vice president at BPC. Hoagland has completed 33 years of federal government service. From 1982 until 2003, Hoagland was a staff member of the Senate Budget Committee, serving as that committee’s staff director from 1986 to 2003.

Condoleezza Rice co-chairs BPC’s Immigration Task Force. She is currently a professor of political economy in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a professor of political science at Stanford University. From January 2005-2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State.

Former Senator Byron L. Dorgan is a BPC Senior Fellow and co-chairs BPC’s Energy Project. He served as a congressman and senator for North Dakota for 30 years before retiring from the U.S. Senate in 2011. He served in the Senate leadership for 16 years.

Thomas H. Kean is former governor of New Jersey (1982 to 1990). As governor, he served on the President’s Education Policy Advisory Committee and as chair of the Education Commission of the States and the National Governor’s Association Task Force on Teaching.

Dan Glickman is a BPC senior fellow, and he co-chairs its Commission on Political Reform, Democracy Project, Prevention Initiative, and Task Force on Defense Budget and Strategy. Glickman served as the U.S. secretary of agriculture from March 1995 until January 2001.

Pete V. Domenici is a BPC senior fellow, and he co-chaired its Debt Reduction Task Force, Health Care Cost Containment Initiative, and Task Force on Defense Budget and Strategy. Domenici served as a senator from New Mexico longer than any other person.

Doctor and Senator Bill Frist is a BPC senior fellow and he co-chairs its Health Project. He is both a nationally recognized heart and lung transplant surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. Frist represented Tennessee in the U.S. Senate for 12 years.

Washington, D.C. – In response to President Obama’s recently announced transportation infrastructure plan to expand and renew roads, railways and runways across the nation, transportation experts with the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Transportation Policy Project released the following statement:

“We welcome President Obama’s call for renewed and thoughtful transportation investment. The President’s announcement provides the opportunity to put Americans back to work while beginning the process of fundamentally reforming the way the federal government invests in transportation,” said Emil Frankel, Director of Transportation Policy at the BPC. “We hope that these new resources can be used to develop strategic, mode-neutral transportation plans and programs that optimize performance across the entire system.”

“Given our nation’s current fiscal state, NTPP believes it is more important than ever that we invest transportation dollars wisely, efficiently, and in a way that supports long-term economic recovery while holding funding recipients accountable for results,” said JayEtta Hecker, Director of Transportation Advocacy at the BPC. “Any investment to modernize and repair the nation’s transportation system must extend beyond short-term ‘shovel-ready’ projects to create sustained job growth and should be targeted towards programs that generate economic, environmental, energy and safety benefits. We are supportive of the Administration’s efforts to invest in transportation without adding to the deficit. We believe these investments can be made fiscally sustainable by funding transportation primarily from user-based revenues.”

“We commend the President’s focus on system preservation and investments of national significance. NTPP specifically recommends that both new and existing transportation grantees be held accountable for demonstrating progress against specific metrics in the areas of economic growth, metropolitan accessibility, national connectivity, environmental protection and energy security, and safety,” said Joshua Schank, Director of Transportation Research at the BPC. “We look forward to helping President Obama, Secretary LaHood, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Congress with this new effort.”